Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice can be heard spewing profanities, including gay slurs, and seen firing basketballs at players' heads and bodies, kicking basketballs across the court and making physical contact with several players -- shoving, kicking, grabbing -- on a tape the school showed today. The same tape showed today to reporters, it is believed, was obtained by ESPN and portions were aired this afternoon. See aired video portions below.

The tape in question, approximately 40 minutes long and covering practices at Rutgers Athletic Center over Rice's first three years as Rutgers' coach, was the basis for the school's suspension of Rice in December for three games and fining him $50,000.

Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said specifically the gay slur was "at the core of the suspension."

In the video, Rice is shown calling a player a "(expletive) fairy" and "(expletive) faggot."

Rutgers decided to show the tape to about a dozen reporters when the school learned that ESPN was originally planning to air portions of the tape on Sunday during the program "Outside the Lines."

The tape surfaced after former director of player development Eric Murdock did not have his contract renewed a year ago.

"We didn't produce this tape," Pernetti said. "This tape was produced by Eric Murdock's attorneys. This is, as far as we understand, the tape in ESPN's possession right now."

In the ESPN report, Murdock claims to have made Pernetti aware of Rice's behavior as early as last July. The tape shown today, Pernetti said, was not presented to the Rutgers athletic department until Nov. 2012.

Murdock's attorney, Raj Gadhok, told ESPN that Murdock was fired for reporting Rice's behavior and plans on taking legal action against the university.

Pernetti said that Murdock was not fired, rather that when his contract expired it was not renewed.

Pernetti, who gave Rice a vote of confidence last month, reiterated he will remain as coach of the program barring any additional incidents.

Rice, who has two years left on a five-year contract, has undergone anger management counseling and also had a monitor attend practice after returning from his suspension.

The tape shown to the media is a collection of several hundred practices with, as Pernetti said, no context because no practice is shown in its entirety.

Pernetti said school president Robert Barchi has seen the tape and agreed with Pernetti's decision to both suspend Rice and retain him as head coach upon completion of counseling.